THEA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sophocles, Her Majesty'S Ship
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Conventions are the building blocks of dramatic structure: required regardless for dramatic conventions. Dramatic conventions are sets of rules with which both the audience and actors are familiar and which act as a usual way of quickly signifying the nature of the action or character. Characters are aware of the audience and talk to them. When a character talks for a substantial amount of time to another character or characters. Doesn"t always have to be to the audience, can sometimes be to other characters. When a character is alone onstage and speaks their inner-thoughts aloud. A guise, whether created of wood or make-up, that alters the actor"s face: antigone, sophocles (c. 144 bc) One character talks to a character, then talks out to the audience, then returns to talking to the other character: h. m. s. When a character"s emotion becomes so heightened that they must sing. The use of physical gesture, not sound, to convey an action.
